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Facebook: Too Big of A #Fail to Forgive

4/14/2018

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These days the devils are everywhere, but the details are always revealing. From Wired's Rowland Manthorpe: 
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"...About six months ago, I spent a day at the campus you built in Silicon Valley. I’m guessing people don’t tell you this kind of thing, but, just so you know, it’s not a pleasant place. It’s too big, for a start. Plus those posters you have everywhere make it seem like an AA meeting, only for people who’ve never been drunk. There was one at reception saying, “Silence = Death.” Right above the spot where you force people to sign a non-disclosure form to enter the building..."

Meanwhile, the gentle and brilliant giant (all definitions) Jaron Lanier spoke about the Faustian "oops" of social media at the TED conference this week: "We cannot operate as a society if the only way two people can communicate is if it is financed by a third person who wants to manipulate them." 

Well, we can, but it's an Orwellian society (see China).

Watching Lanier's talk Iwondered how many in the audience made their fortunes from mining and manipulating data...



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